Engraver

Specialisations: Glass etcher, Hand Engraver, Etcher, Pantographer, Glass Embosser, Jewellery Hand Engraver

• Transferring from paper transfers decorative or ornamental designs on articles
• Designing and producing normal flat cut lettering or lettering that is shadowed with applied vinyl or lettering that is ready cut for application
• Painting decorative free-hand designs on objects, such as pottery, glass, cigarette cases, lampshades
• Measuring and computing dimensions of lettering, designs, or patterns to be engraved
• Cutting out letters and signs for display purposes from wallboard or cardboard, by hand or machines, such as electrically powered jigsaw or bandsaw
• Examining sketches, diagrams, samples, blueprints, or photographs to decide how designs are to be etched, cut, or engraved onto work pieces
• Writing, painting, or printing signs or show cards used for display or other purposes
• Laying out and painting in one or more languages letters, figures, monograms and designs to make signs
• Engraving and printing patterns, ornamental designs, etchings, trademarks, figures or lettering onto flat or curved surfaces of a wide variety of metal, glass, plastic, or ceramic items
• Etching decorative designs, calibration markings and other figures on glass articles
• Integrating and developing visual elements, such as line, space, mass, colour, and perspective, in order to produce desired effects such as the illustration of ideas, emotions, or moods
• Using software and routing equipment to produce 3D Carved images for application onto larger signage as well as engraved and inlaid signs